Karin Verelst's personal home-page at Vrije Universiteit Brussel

B. Sc., B.A., M.Sc., M.Phil., PhD

Karin Verelst is a scientist (Molecular Biology) who turned to history and philosphy of science. Her areas of interest include ancient mathematics, early modern natural philosophy and the foundations of mathematics, the structural charaterisation of causal theories using category theory, the logico-algebraic approach to the foundations of quantum mechanics.

Another area of interest concerns the relevance of problems dealt with in Ancient philosophy for present-day foundational debates. These problems should
always be studied from the original sources, not just from later - already biased - interpretations. A case in point is the "deictic" nature of Zeno's
paradoxes, which leads to a straightforward interpretation of all paradoxes as variants of the same basic argument, as required by the testimonia, something
hitherto not accounted for in the standard literature.